My 1st Ejection

[UmpJM]

Don,

JM, this is your first year. Does any of this ring true for you?

Quite a bit of it does.

Game management, most certainly.

In terms of anticipation, I found I initially had a tendency to commit too early to the "obvious" (to me) play. I believe I am now more patient in letting the play develop and letting the actual action of the play take me to the proper angle and best distance I can achieve w/o sacrificing position for a possible subsequent play.

I am pretty confident in my rules knowledge and have not yet had a situation where I improperly applied the rules. I did have one situation where I wasn't sure & happened to guess right.

When I do work 2-man games (approx. 20% of my games so far this year), I find the biggest liability is I have to think too much about which calls or responsibilities are mine and which are my partner's. I kind of "know" in a book-learnin' way, but it is far from second nature to me at this point.

So far I haven't had too much difficulty in staying focused when on the bases in a 2-man game. Except sometimes when it's the second MSBL game I'm working that day - but that's a different issue.

I certainly prefer working two-man games; for me, doing a game solo is preferable to both eating lead paint and not working a game at all.

JM